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Prevent sheets to pick up the scale of legend views

Prevent sheets to pick up the scale of legend views

It is a very common rookie mistake to get the sheet scale read 'As indicated' once they drop a legend on it.

 

It would be so much easier if legends had the option to not report their scale to the sheet.

 

24 Comments
lionel.kai
Advisor

Great idea! Previously, I was thinking globally:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/revit-default-manager/idc-p/6377990#M1019

or per-sheet:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/custom-text-in-scale-parameter/idc-p/6377987#M1018


but checking a "Do not report Scale to Sheet" option in the Legend's Properties or Custom Scale dialog makes a lot more sense. That way, if you want the scale of some Legends to show up, but not others, you have that flexibility.

Anonymous
Not applicable

It will be helpful if all views had this parameter so that we could make key plans without having the scale as "as indicated".

Kevin.Bell
Advisor

If a Legend is placed on a sheet with a floor plan and the scales do not match Revit displays 'As Indicated' in the titleblocks scale.

 

Often Legends do not require a scale.

 

I'd like the option to select 'No Scale' for a Legend so that when its placed on a sheet with a plan its scale is ignored and the titleblock only shows the Plans scale.

Inerin
Contributor

There should be an options to turn the scale associated with legend off. If we have a sheet with a 1:100 scale and another with a 1:50 scale, we end up having to make to legends with the same text only in different scales. I would be better if we could use one legend on all sheets which won't affect the scale noted on the titleblock.

 

 

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Anonymous
Not applicable
I agree! It would be amazing! and plans should have the same "not scale" parameter in order to make key plans and don't afect the scale indicated in the titleblock!
Claire_L_G
Participant

this thread started in 2016 - autodesk sort it please,  its still an issue in Revit 2021

matthewsantana
Participant

Still an issue in 2022..

MOR-ConorMacken
Advocate

As a related topic, it would also be useful if "As Indicated" could be customised to something else (we normally use "As Shown" or "A/S" on CAD drawings) .

 

Better still it could list the scales, E.g. "1:100, 50, 20" with an upper limit to stop the list being too long after which it would fall back on the catch-all text.

pieter4
Advisor

Still remains an issue

mbXL3F3
Explorer

Can't believe Autodesk still could not fix this simple issue...

ckilger12
Contributor

Bumping this back up....the fact we still have to deal with this is crazy. We have standardized on creating options in our titleblock to control this

Status changed to: Accepted

Congrats! We think this is a great idea, so we've decided to add it to our roadmap. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

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DanielKP2Z9V
Advocate

Glad to hear that it has been accepted to the roadmap, is there a link available somewhere to track its progress? I've searched the public roadmap for "legend" "scale", "title" and "label", but nothing popped up.

 

Claire_L_G
Participant
Not to my knowledge....
DanielKP2Z9V
Advocate

I've ended up using a custom global/shared parameter that is referenced by a label in a titleblock - however it soon became obvious that changing a scale for hundreds of sheets will become very errorprone. I wrote a script which sets a chose parameter from chosen sheets based on placed views - any view except a legend. It prints at the end list of sheets for which scale couldn't be determined (most likely because there were multiple views with different scales): using Autodesk.Revit.Attributes;using Autodesk.Revit.DB;using Autodesk.Revit - Pastebin.com (code is incomplete, this is just a reference, I will try to publish the whole thing soon).

A problem lasts over 10 years since the start of Revit

This makes me question those who use CAD, or even older, handmade the drawings: who made the "brilliant" idea to include the scales in the titleblock?

When you have a drawing with a plan view and some detailed callouts with different scales for more detail of some parts, would you look at the view names or the titleblock to find the scale of EACH specific view?

DanielKP2Z9V
Advocate

Sorry to hear that, I've been there. This sucks.

Status changed to: Implemented

We are pleased to say that this has been implemented in Revit 2026! Thank you for your contribution to improving Revit!

Help | Title Block Scale Override | Autodesk

 

 -The Factory

Status changed to: Accepted

Apologies...after further discussion, while possible in Revit 2026 to create an override for the title block scale text, this feature does not directly prevent the sheet scale from recognizing the legend scale et. al. 

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